Can i overclock i5-6500?

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If i pair the i5 6500 with a MSI B150m Mortar motherboard and a coolermaster 212 EVO can i overclock the processor? Does the motherboard support multiplier for this processor? m actually noob in case of overclocking :(
 
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Yes but only around 100Mhz using BCLK. Its not worth the effort to be honest. My advise would be not to attempt an overclock as the gains are marginal and not really worth the effort. Now if you if had a 6600K and a z100 series board that would be a different story.
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Yes but only around 100Mhz using BCLK. Its not worth the effort to be honest. My advise would be not to attempt an overclock as the gains are marginal and not really worth the effort. Now if you if had a 6600K and a z100 series board that would be a different story.
 
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if i get a z170 motherboard will i be able to overclock the 6500?
 
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No, because it has a locked multiplier. There are some ASRock boards that might still allow BCLK overclocking on the locked CPUs, but Intel has been cracking down on that and you'd need to get a board that doesn't have a firmware update that locks that feature out.
 
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If you get the right Z170 mobo with the right (older) BIOS, yes you can overclock. Whether it's worth it is debatable. Although, if you are going to overclock a non-k CPU, you might as well get the cheaper i5-6400.
http://overclocking.guide/category/intel-oc-guides/skylake-non-k-oc/

Edit:mad:Supernova1138 it's not just ASRock mobos that supported non-k OC. And you can always just down-grade the firmware if you get a mobo with a newer rev that blocks non-k OC.
 
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So i need to flash the motherboard with a older bios in order to overclock a non-k cpu?
 
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Yes, BCLK overclocking was never available on anything other than some beta BIOSes, an even then it might not work anymore due to microcode updates that Intel pushed to stop people from doing BCLK overclocking.
 
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Probably. I think it was around half a year ago that Intel started putting their foot down on non-k OC, and a little while after that all new BIOSs disabled it. So you'd need to flash a BIOS from before that happened. Here's a list:
http://overclocking.guide/intel-skylake-non-k-overclocking-bios-list/
 
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I heard that even WIndows 10 gives a blue screen once it finds out an overclock in a non-k cpu? Is there a way to overcome that? then i might buy a 6500 with a z170 motherboard
 
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